Recently cleared out about 70% of my PS2 collection as, to be perfectly frank, a lot of classic games on it are now unplayable shit.

People who complain about games being better in the past need to be locked in a room with a C-64 that's prone to tape read errors.

I also think it's (on consoles) 3D graphics' coming of age. I think we'll be able to look back at stuff like Uncharted 3 and Bioshock Infinite in years to come and still find it pleasing in much the same way I can still turn on my SNES and find 2D stuff like Super Mario World and A Link To The Past decent to the look at.

I kind of missed the 16-bit generation. I grew up during that gen, but didn't know anyone that owned a SNES...hell I only knew of one person that even owned the Genesis and they happened to be the poorest family around. We'd do fun things like, steal from the gas station, raid their garbages at night for their family, get in line for inexpensive items to buy food stamps with so their parents could pay for their nasty habits the money left. I tried eating there once, and decided I didn't want to scoop the cockroaches out of the peanut butter. So, once my family was a bit more accomplished, the 64 was already facing it's middle age - yet still, the 16-bit games are magical. I may have been introduced when I was 16, but damn, A Link to the Past, Mario RPG, fan-subbed Tales of Phantasia, Ys IV, Donkey Kong Country, Street Fighter, so many good games. It's taken how long for 3D games to get great, and now most are polished turds? It takes 400+ people to make Halo 4?

No, I think I'll take my SNES with a side of Xbox 1 (you know the first one..one) and a taste of Halo 2 multiplayer. But hey, on the plus side, we're getting Halo 3 FREE next month!!!

I've a twinkle in my eye for the Superfamicom still, brought one in my early 20's, everything from Capcom and Konami back then was pure gold, importing back then was pretty expensive but well worth it, the SFC for me was the pinnacle of the 2D genre, its games are more pleasing to the eye than anything on the PS1 which just looks like a pixelated soup to me these days.

Rallysport Challenge 2 is another game that had it all, I feel nothing this gen has come close to matching, the massive draw distance, butter smooth frame rate and an insane sense of speed, brilliant online too in the early days of Live with a great community, Peugeot 405 T16...nuff said

Lamb wrote:
Well the greatest gen is always going to be the one you grew up in as it always inspires the most nostalgia.

Utter bullshit. The 80's is the greatest generation. Ok it's the one I grew up in (and it's also more of a decade than a generation) but it is widely judged by scholars to have been the best. Actual evidence: